Diane Ravitch

Biographic Data

ID292696
NAMEDiane Ravitch
GIVEN NAMESDiane
FAMILY NAMERavitch
SIGNATURERAVITCH D
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS55
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Policy Dialogue: Twenty Years of Test-Based Accountability

    Open AccessDiane Ravitch, Denise Forte et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly2022

    Since No Child Left Behind was signed into law, test-based accountability has become a core feature of the K-12 public education system in the United States. The approach, it would seem, is here to stay. Yet that is not to say that anything resembling a consensus has emerged. Over the past twenty years, critics have continued to raise questions about the theory of change underlying test-based accountability, and scholars have detailed a variety o…

  • Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education

    Diane Ravitch, Noliwe M Rooks et al.BOOKCutting School2017

    xi, 272 pages ; 22 cm

  • History's Struggle to Survive in the Schools

    Diane RavitchARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2007

    History has a story unlike that of any other school subject. It entered the high school curriculum in the late nineteenth century as a so-called “modern” subject, along with science; then it enjoyed four decades of solid growth and esteem. But in the second and third decades of the twentieth century, the study of history became the target of relentless—and unfortunately successful—efforts to diminish its place in the elementary and secondary curr…

  • Challenges to Teacher Education

    Open AccessDiane RavitchARTICLEJournal of Teacher Education2007Cited by: 2

    Today, American education faces a crisis. It is not too extreme to say that public education hangs in balance. Anyone who has read history of American education knows that there have always been critics. But they did not want public education dismantled. They wanted it to be better. Today, however, there are critics who believe that public education itself is obsolete. The latest manifestation of this view can be seen in a report released in Dece…

  • The scars and trophies of a reformer

    Open AccessDiane RavitchARTICLEAcademic Questions2005

  • Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms

    Diane RavitchBOOKLeft Back2000Cited by: 19

    "Left Back recounts grandiose efforts by education reformers to use the schools to promote social and political goals, even when they diminished the schools' ability to educate children. It shows how generations of reformers have engaged in social engineering, advocating such innovations as industrial education, intelligence testing, curricular differentiation, and life-adjustment education. These reformers, she demonstrates, simultaneously mount…

  • The Great School Wars: A history of the New York City public schools

    Diane RavitchBOOKThe great school wars2000

  • Better than alternatives

    Open AccessDiane RavitchARTICLESociety1997

  • Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform

    Robert L Hampel, Diane Ravitch et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996Cited by: 1

  • History and Educational Reform

    Robert L Hampel, William R Johnson et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996Cited by: 1

    Robert L. Hampel, William R. Johnson, David N. Plank, Diane Ravitch, David Tyack, Larry Cuban, History and Educational Reform, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-502

  • Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform

    Barry M Franklin, Diane Ravitch et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 9

    Journal Article Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform. Ed. by Diane Ravitch and Maris A. Vinovskis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xiv, 381 pp. Cloth, $48.50, ISBN 0-8018-4920-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8018-4921-7.) Get access Barry M. Franklin Barry M. Franklin University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…

  • Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us About School Reform

    Diane Ravitch, Maris VinovskisBOOKLearning from the past1995Cited by: 9

  • A response to Auster

    Open AccessDiane RavitchARTICLEAcademic Questions1991

    I n the 1991 issue o f The American I Molefi Kete Spring Scholar, replied to Asante, a p r o p o n e n t of Afrocentrism, who accused me of being hopelessly Eurocentric. He wrote in reaction to the same article that Lawrence Auster now criticizes for being insufficiently Anglo-Saxon. I am t empted to in t roduce the two gent lemen to each other, and let them carry on their a rgument about Eurocentr ism without me. Like Auster, I believe that ther…

  • A Report from Eastern Europe

    Diane RavitchARTICLEThe Social Studies1991Cited by: 1

  • Back to the Future: The New Conservatism in Education

    Decker F Walker, Chester E Finn et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher1990Cited by: 1

  • The Revival of History: A Response

    Diane RavitchARTICLEThe Social Studies1989Cited by: 6

  • "Another Report Card, Another "F

    Arthur Zilversmit, Lynne V Cheyney et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1988

  • The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

    Wayne J Urban, Allan Bloom et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. By Allan Bloom, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. By E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature. By Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, Jr. Get access Wayne J. Urban Wayne J. Urban Georgia State University Search …

  • What Do Our Seventeen-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature

    Susan M Lloyd, Diane Ravitch et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988Cited by: 1

  • What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know: A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature

    Open AccessDiane Ravitch, Chester E FinnBOOKWhat Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know1987

  • Crisis, Crisis, Where Is the Crisis? Recent Popular Sociologies of Education

    Harvey J Graff, Philip H Coombs et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

  • Against Mediocrity: The Humanities in America's High Schools

    Michael S Mcpherson, Chester E Finn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1985

  • The Schools We Deserve: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time

    Open AccessMichael McPherson, Diane RavitchARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1985Cited by: 2

    Introduction Forgetting the Questions: The Problem of Educational Reform The Schools We Deserve The Continuing Crisis: Fashions in Education Bring Literature and History Back to Elementary Schools American Education: Has the Pendulum Swung Once Too Often? Scapegoating the Teachers The Meaning of the New Coleman Report From History to Social Studies: Dilemmas and Problems Curriculum in Crisis: Connections Between Past and Present Is Education Real…

  • Whither the History of Urban Education

    David J Hogan, Ronald D Goodenow et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1985

  • Not the Whole Story

    Michael B Katz, Diane RavitchARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1985